Friday, October 10, 2014

The head of the United States military's Southern Command issued a chilling warning this week, saying if Ebola spreads to the Caribbean and Central America, the U.S. will experience a serious refugee situation.

Published on Oct 9, 2014

Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly made remarks regarding the fear of Ebola spreading in the Western hemisphere, saying he thought there would be a "mass migration" of people fleeing to the United States if the virus spread to Central America. He told an audience at the National Defense University in Washington on Wednesday that he sees a potential Ebola outbreak in the region as a threat to national security. Kelly noted that an outbreak of the virus in Haiti or countries in Central America would have an immediate effect on the U.S.

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"If it breaks out, it's literally 'Katie bar the door,' " Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly told an audience at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. "And there will be mass migration into the United States."

The general also said that most countries in the Western Hemisphere do not have the ability to deal with an Ebola outbreak.

....warned also that criminal networks that smuggle people into the U.S. may bring people in carrying Ebola. He told the audience of a recent visit to the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with U.S. embassy personnel. At the time, there were a group of men who "were waiting in line to pass into Nicaragua and then on their way north."

"The embassy person walked over and asked who they were and they told him they were from Liberia and they had been on the road about two weeks," Kelly said. "They met up with the network in Trinidad and now they were on their way to the United States -- illegally, of course."

The men, Kelly said, "could have made it to New York City and still be within the incubation period for Ebola."

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These countries in red do not have the ability to deal with Malaria, much less Ebola!

"If it breaks out, it's literally 'Katie bar the door,' " Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly told an audience at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. "And there will be mass migration into the United States."

The general also said that most countries in the Western Hemisphere do not have the ability to deal with an Ebola outbreak.

"So much like western Africa, it will rage for a period of time," Kelly said. He said this is especially true if the disease reaches Haiti, which is about 700 miles away from Miami.

The U.S. Coast Guard so far this fiscal year has interdicted almost 950 Haitians at sea trying to reach South Florida.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate 1.4 million people will be infected with Ebola by the end of the year. Of those, 62 percent will likely die.

Kelly said there is a serious risk of people infected with Ebola fleeing their home countries trying to get into the United States.

America is facing a health crisis of unparalleled proportions. We could be weeks away from an outbreak of several pandemics on our southern border which will lead to the United Nations emerging as a legitimized police force operating within the territorial boundaries of the United States, ostensibly here to meet the crisis.

"They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get into the United States for treatment," he said.

Kelly's remarks come the same week that the CDC's director said the Ebola crisis is the worst public health situation he has seen since the AIDS epidemic.

"I would say that in the 30 years I've been working in public health, the only think like this has been AIDS," Tom Frieden told an audience of the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

"We have to work now so it is not the word's next AIDS," he said, according to Agence France Press.

Dallas resident Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, on Wednesday became the first person in the U.S. to die from Ebola. He became infected while on a trip to Liberia, from where he returned on Sept. 27. Liberia is one of three western African countries that make up ground zero for the Ebola outbreak.

She said people coming to the hospital exhibiting symptoms will be asked if they had recently been out of the country, particularly if they had been in a nation where Ebola is present -- including Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia or Lagos Nigeria.

Baptist Health South Florida actually began preparing after reports of Duncan's infection became known, Konczewski said. The corporate office sent out an alert saying "this is what you do, this is the procedure," she said.

Baptist hospitals are also equipped with personal protection gear and are prepared to isolate patients showing possible Ebola-like symptoms -- which, according to the CDC, include a fever of more than 101.5 degrees, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and unexplained bruising and bleeding.

Kelly warned also that criminal networks that smuggle people into the U.S. may bring people in carrying Ebola. He told the audience of a recent visit to the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua with U.S. embassy personnel. At the time, there were a group of men who "were waiting in line to pass into Nicaragua and then on their way north."

"The embassy person walked over and asked who they were and they told him they were from Liberia and they had been on the road about two weeks," Kelly said. "They met up with the network in Trinidad and now they were on their way to the United States -- illegally, of course."

The men, Kelly said, "could have made it to New York City and still be within the incubation period for Ebola."

A resident sick from the ebola virus waits on September 23, 2014 outside "Island Clinic", a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia. This could just as well be in Haiti!

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